Warner broadcasted a live fan event late yesterday afternoon (third video below), in which they found another way to squeeze an additional hour of content from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. More importantly, they later released a more tightly edited theatrical trailer and production diary. The previous two trailers are available here and here.

This new trailer offers another second of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Smaug at the end. All we need is about 20 more trailers like this and we’ll have our Cumbersbumberswumbers cured.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens December 13th.

And here is the newest production diary from Peter Jackson. Check out Ian McKellen dropping F-bombs at 2:50 and Evangeline Lilly offering death around the 6:30 mark.

Here’s the full fan event. We don’t expect you to want to watch it, but it’s there all the same.

Warner has also released a huge batch of posters:

Okay, this one is actually from The Shiznit, and it’s glorious. The large version is available over there. Even the smoke dragon has a little hat!

Continue on for the real posters from that batch, as this post — much like The Hobbit — is a segmented journey. (We promise this won’t last nine hours.)

I was dubious at the thought of stretching this story out to three films, but to be honest, now I’m just glad there are going to be two more films to look forward to – cannot wait for the talking spiders, ah yeah!

Snarkiness aside, I don’t think audiences have the emotional attachment to the majority of the characters. We care about Bilbo, sure. But I don’t really feel like audiences relate to the dwarves (I dare you to try and name more than 3) at all.

I like how Bilbo is supposed to be a master thief because he’s like 6 inches shorter than a dwarf and super hard to see. Either way, I’ll be seeing this because I’ve already given Peter Jackson a bunch of money.